Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets. Written by Thomas Howell. Newly augmented, corrected and amended |
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The britlenesse of thinges mortall, and the trustinesse of Vertue.
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The britlenesse of thinges mortall, and the trustinesse of Vertue.
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you faire Dames whose fauoure now doth florish,
To you whose daintie daies in ioyes are spent:
To you whose corpes Dame nature yet doth poolish,
To you whom Cupide chiefly doth frequent,
To you I write with harte and good intent:
That you may note by this which I do say,
How natures giftes soone weare and waste a way.
To you whose daintie daies in ioyes are spent:
To you whose corpes Dame nature yet doth poolish,
To you whom Cupide chiefly doth frequent,
To you I write with harte and good intent:
That you may note by this which I do say,
How natures giftes soone weare and waste a way.
Your loftie lookes the time will plucke full lowe,
Your statelie steps Age eke will alter quight,
Not one thinge now that doth geue pleasant showe,
But time of cuts and forseth to take the flight,
Saue Uertue sole in whiche who doth delight,
When wealth, when pompe, when beautie shall them leaue,
Uertue alone to such will sticke and cleaue.
Your statelie steps Age eke will alter quight,
Not one thinge now that doth geue pleasant showe,
But time of cuts and forseth to take the flight,
Saue Uertue sole in whiche who doth delight,
When wealth, when pompe, when beautie shall them leaue,
Uertue alone to such will sticke and cleaue.
Where is faire Helines bewtie now be come,
Or Cressed eke whom Troylus long time serued,
Where be the decked daintie Dames of Rome,
That in Aurelius time so florished:
As these and many mo are vanished,
So shall your youth, your fauour, and your grace,
When nothing els but vertue may take place.
Or Cressed eke whom Troylus long time serued,
Where be the decked daintie Dames of Rome,
That in Aurelius time so florished:
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So shall your youth, your fauour, and your grace,
When nothing els but vertue may take place.
To vertue therfore do your selues applie,
Call Cressids lyfe vnto your youthly minde,
Who past her time in Troye most pleasauntly
Till falsinge faith to vice she had inclinde,
For whiche to hir suche present plagues were sinde,
That she in Lazers lodge hir life did ende,
Whiche wonted was most choysly to be tende.
Call Cressids lyfe vnto your youthly minde,
Who past her time in Troye most pleasauntly
Till falsinge faith to vice she had inclinde,
For whiche to hir suche present plagues were sinde,
That she in Lazers lodge hir life did ende,
Whiche wonted was most choysly to be tende.
Hir comly corpes that Troylus did delight
All puft with plages full lothsomly there lay:
Hir Azurde vaines, hir Cristall skinne so whight,
With Purple spots, was falne in great decay:
Hir wrinkeled face once fayre doth fade away,
Thus she abode plagde in midst of this hir youth,
Was forst to beg for breaking of hir truth.
All puft with plages full lothsomly there lay:
Hir Azurde vaines, hir Cristall skinne so whight,
With Purple spots, was falne in great decay:
Hir wrinkeled face once fayre doth fade away,
Thus she abode plagde in midst of this hir youth,
Was forst to beg for breaking of hir truth.
Lo here the ende of wanton wicked life,
Lo here the fruit that Sinne both sowes and reapes:
Lo here of vice the right rewarde and knife,
That cutth of cleane and tombleth downe in heapes,
All such as treadeth Cresids cursed steps,
Take heede therefore how you your youthes do spende,
For vice bringee plagues, and vertue happie ende.
Lo here the fruit that Sinne both sowes and reapes:
Lo here of vice the right rewarde and knife,
That cutth of cleane and tombleth downe in heapes,
All such as treadeth Cresids cursed steps,
Take heede therefore how you your youthes do spende,
For vice bringee plagues, and vertue happie ende.
Finis.
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